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scy 🔜 WHY<p>Are people even using something else than YAML front matter in their Markdown (or whatever) files?</p><p>Apparently there are SSGs that support HTML &lt;meta&gt; tag front matter, and if you're using ReStructured Text it probably does its own thing. And I bet there's at least one person on the planet building their website from ASN.1 files.</p><p>What are _you_ using?</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSG</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/YAML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YAML</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FrontMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrontMatter</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/PlainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlainText</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/StaticSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StaticSite</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/StaticWebsite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StaticWebsite</span></a></p>
scy 🔜 WHY<p>Aaaand there you go: My first very own Python package on PyPI.</p><p><a href="https://pypi.org/project/felloff/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pypi.org/project/felloff/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>felloff is a CLI tool to extract, edit (non-interactively, i.e. via command line switches), or remove YAML front matter in text files.</p><p>Now also supports editing existing files in place (instead of just printing the changed version to stdout).</p><p>Also, if you installed the 0.1.0 version please upgrade to 0.1.1, there's been a silly bug that broke reading from stdin&nbsp;… 🤦‍♂️</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CLI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/YAML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YAML</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FrontMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrontMatter</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/felloff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>felloff</span></a></p>
scy 🔜 WHY<p>If you'd like to test drive my YAML front matter CLI tool, you can now install it from Git using uv or pip(x). There's also a readme now that shows you what it can do and teaches you how to use it.</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/scy/felloff" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">codeberg.org/scy/felloff</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Let me know what you think and if you encounter any bugs!</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/YAML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YAML</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FrontMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrontMatter</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/YAMLFrontMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YAMLFrontMatter</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CLI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a></p>
scy 🔜 WHY<p>me: manually editing YAML front matter sucks</p><p>also me: *spends a day writing a CLI tool for common tasks*</p><p>(Not released yet, I have a few small features I'd like to implement first.)</p><p>Edit: It's now available for testing via Git:</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/scy/felloff" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">codeberg.org/scy/felloff</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/YAML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YAML</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/FrontMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrontMatter</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CLI</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SSG</span></a></p>
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦<p>Y’ALL! <br>i need <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/YAML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YAML</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obisidan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obisidan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frontmatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontmatter</span></a> help</p><p>y’all know how you can add filters to frontmatter variables?<br><a href="https://help.obsidian.md/web-clipper/filters" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">help.obsidian.md/web-clipper/f</span><span class="invisible">ilters</span></a></p><p>how do i do this?</p><p>1. TAKE A TITLE<br>"Ohai This Is A Title: Made a long ass mess with all this text" </p><p>2. USE THE COLON AS DELIMITER<br>title: "Ohai This Is A Title"<br>subtitle: "Made a long ass mess with all this text"</p><p>3. SO I CAN TEMPLATE IT AS</p><p>title: {{title|replace: ? : " " }} <br>subtitle: {{title|replace: ? : " " }} <br>alias: {{title}}</p>
Zac<p>An exciting discovery this morning. I installed VSCodium on a whim as it is the FOSS variant of VS Code. Why devs would use an IDE from MS is beyond me. While fiddling with the extensions available I found Front Matter. </p><p>Holy sh*t!</p><p>It is a CMS for your SSG of choice that gives you a dashboard view of the content you are building and also lets you preview while editing. ‘</p><p>&lt;mind blown&gt;</p><p><a href="https://frontmatter.codes/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">frontmatter.codes/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://home.social/tags/VSCodium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VSCodium</span></a> <a href="https://home.social/tags/FrontMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrontMatter</span></a> <a href="https://home.social/tags/Hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hugo</span></a> <a href="https://home.social/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mac</span></a></p>